The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-30
ITEMS OF INGREsT.

docket for torty-two year3 1t began about o
81 hog, and has cost the priI4 pals about 1909, !
A WISCONSIN MAN who dr. like his table
waiter ct a Philadelphia hotesrew pumpkin
pie at him. and the throw COZ him fine OF $40
and S1S costs
THE peach trees around FehiIe, Mich, are
so laden with fruit that it has b,, ne necessary
TO thin them. One man eStimasAhat his crop
will be 10000 baskets.
QUoNG TART, Chinaman of ydney, Aus
tralia, who married a white W. IAN about q
year ago, is now proud father be little girl
VIII grow up as Victoria Jubilee tt.
LR. MoRRELL MACKENZIE, the hinent Eng
lish surgeon, who has been opeing on the
Crown Prince of Germany's throdis a nephew
of Compton, the comedian who I'd to delight
London playgoers half a century ID more ago.
AN IMMENSE PHOTOGRAPH, said be one of
the largest in the world, has beenlaken of the
United States Treasury building atiashington.
1t measures feet by !, and is TO Y presented |
to eX-Secretary of the Irea ury Dali Z. Man
ming.
AN ungrateful tramp who was talA in by a
Chicago woman from drenchng rh storm,
given his supper and then provided a Nmforta-
ole place to sleep the night, was couutA among
the missing in the morning, and SO WaAle sofa
on which he had rested.
Mrs. n. C. JONES' of Diamond LoclAMich, |
has a canary bird with double voice. te APP |
pears to sing two songs at once, and has sort |
of ventriloquistic power by which his Hce is |
made to appear to come from anotherroCm |
from that in which he is
PETER WHITE, representing the new consany
to develop the Irish wooden industry, reatly
organized by Messrs Parnen and Davit has
returned to Dublin from New York, 5aitng
with him as o result of six weeks week in
America sample orders to The value OF 500
900.
STEAM YACHTS, luxurious luXurcs that hey
are becoming, keep multiplying. Joseph Steh-
ney, OF the New York Yacht Club, has just nd .
one built. the SuSQUehanna, alta cost OF 1ltO,uo.
| She is twO-mastcd SchOoner-rgged, and mett
ures 300 tons. BY means of the trunk cabin tia
| crew may work the vessel without going on
| deck.
THE foundation stone of the Women's Jubilee
| Offering i'll Engand-the Prince ConsoTt 5
equestrian statue-was lad with an historical
| mallet. The Queen used the same mallet which
George III handled to lay the first stone of the
| gateway between the York and Lancaster Tow
| ers at Windsor Castle in August, 1924. Since
! then it has been used by the German Crown
| PRINCE Christian AT the Albert Institute, Wind
scr, in 1879
| A ST. THOMAS CAM BARRIsTER received the
| following communication in reply to q letter
asking q former resident of that city to liquidate
a small account: ''STLyENs PoET WIS, July II,
| ISS7--D Dear S1: Having few spear moments
| before i take nay departure thO1ght would tell
! you how foolish you we're to waste time and
| paper riting TO about such trlthng atf3rcS
| are you not aware that i am WHARF the stears
and stripes rule the day such little thlnge does
| not bother me and you are foolish to let it
| trouble you"
JUDGE SLOAN, of Golconda, Ill, was cutting
weeds near his house the other evening and cut
off the head of big rattlesnake. The same
blow threw the snake into the air and It fell upon
| the Judges neck, about which il coiled With a
| convulsve grasp. at the same time keeping up
| its omiuOus rattle. A colored man pulled the
body Off the frightened Judge and assisted him
| to the house, where it was some time before he
could convince himself that the blood which was
| smearcd on his face from the snake was not the
| result of a wound
A DOCTOR said to q patient on his first visit:
"You are very sick man. If you have any
business to do, anything to put in order, it
will be well for you TO do it at once" Doctor,
you don't think l am going to deg Yes; there
| is little hope for you" The man he'd sense
| enough not to be frightened to death, and said:
Well, I've had a great deal of trouble IN my
| life, and most of it never happened He de
feated the doctors prediction This incident a
| well known railway president often tells when
his colleagues are prophesying gloomy things
A CONWAY NIich.) rooster that is equally well
provided with physical and moral courage not
only had the backbone to climb into a sick hens
nest and finish her job of Matching out a batch
| of fifteen chicks, but has since cared for them
| against all corners, including 4 big and ravenous
| hawk. The bird came SEOOping down and had
| already seized one of the chicks when the
rooster discovered him. With q savage scream
he sprang upon the hawk, seized his neck with
his bill, buried his spurs deep in his sides, and
| belabOred him with his wings until help came
| and the hawk was dispatched.
JOHN HoLLINGsHEAD, the London Spectator
in amusements now on visit to this country tC
find a model for new theatre and panorama
| of Niagara Falls, and to persuade DelmoncO Ia
open an American restaurant IN connection
with the show, is a veteran journalist He
| criticised amuscments in the London Dahl
NcwS, wrote a good deal for Dickens on House
| hOld Words and AL the Year RO,tld, and
| became one of the staff of the Alhambra, theu
mammoth variety show. man of ideas
| both in the papers and in the show business he
was made the manager Of the Gaicty Theatre
which he conducted in a bIrlosqne house, with
occasional lapses into melOdrlma, stars and
| French plays He originated the notion of adj
vertising his theatre only in the newspapers
abOlshing posters and window-bills. He alsC
| abolished fees for programmes and clOak-rOOms
TIE Virgin and the Book a rcputed mas
terpiece Of Raphael's, which was seized by the
special Treasury agents in Chicago, Dec. Z, 1856
and libelled for duties, was released by Judg,
Blodgctt and returned to its owner, Honor.
Kciffer. Whether the picture is the work ut
The picture was seized in the Calumet Club
where its owner had allowed il TO he displayed
and was negotiating its sale for $4,000. Heiffei
says that in 1869 he kept q small picture shop al
No 10 Rue de MaleSherbcs Paris, when priest
brought him the picture and wanted him to sci
it for him. The priest was mysterious in hi,
movements, and at last became SO urgent fol
money that he parted with the picture to Keif
fer for 500 francs keitfcr kept tho paiutin9
and when he came TO America brought it Will
him. and Us he became reduced in circun
stances was forced to attempt its sale lie has
Italian documents, seals and tokens ASSERTING
its genuinencSs, hut those critics who have cx
amined it are satisfied that it is not original
TIE huge steamship Great Eastern, whicl
might have been christencd "Dunel's folly
is at last going to be put to the work for which
she was Originally intendcd-namcly, the Aus
traliau trade; but not before she has undergone
an important metamorphoss. She is to have
her paddles removed, and to trust 20 her screw
propeller alone. she is mOrco,c b. have hei
engine power enormously increased, SO rs to b,
able TO do twenty knots an hour There il ~
| reason why she should not bc able to do this
| In suite Of her enormous bulk, size is vessel o
| beautiful lines, and to the day of his death wa,
| the pride of her designer, Mr.. Scott Russell
| only short time before his death lir Russell
espresso his confidence in the future of thu
great ship which had been conceived by Bruno
| and executed by himself notwithstanding tina
| she had then for nearly twenty years been
| colossal failure. The Great Eastern viii prOba
| bly, occupy a permanent place in the world,
history as the biggest ship ever built, but som,
Of the larger Atlantic liners do not fall SO very